Molly,
Uuugh!! I’m so sorry that you’re feeling so crappy. I really thought Lexapro was one of the “gentler” drugs based on my friend’s experience. Don’t give up girl! You’ll find something that will work for you and your poor stomach 
Take care!!
Colleen
Well… Back to the drawing board. I am going off Lexapro and trying Zoloft. I’m still wishing I could go back onto Paxil but I haven’t figured out a way to combat the GI distress. So strange how these meds work. I’ve had the opposite with Lexapro.
I asked my doc today if Lex makes many people dizzy. He said that it is VERY rare. I went back over all of your responses and thought “Well, it isn’t rare among MAVers.”
I am so tired of being a science experiment. 
Molly
I am now off of Lexapro and have started Zoloft. My taper down was slow, but boy do I feel lousy. I really feel like it’s withdrawal from Lexapro, but it could be the the Zoloft I guess. Lexapro was just a bad drug for me. Surprising sense many folks go onto it so easily. Ugggg. I know that my doctor has told me that side effects peak between day 5 - 12. I’m on day 5 now. At least I’m not feeling jacked up from the Zoloft. I’m actually tired as hell.
Our brains must be so sensitive to meds. My whole life I’ve had a harder time with meds than most people. I guess that is the reason.
I’ll let you know about the Zoloft. Please keep your fingers crossed for me.
Molly
Fingers crossed and wishing you well. Kristen
Hi tranquillity,
Just saw this thread and tried to look up your lexapro experience but couldn’t find much in search.
I’ve recently had a bad experience with effexor - going on and getting off it. Am still suffering the fall out weeks after stopping. Was curious what you meant by lexparo really ramping up the MAV for you. Do you feel that triggered a huge downslide that you didn’t come back from?
H
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Hi tranquillity,
Just saw this thread and tried to look up your lexapro experience but couldn’t find much in search.
I’ve recently had a bad experience with effexor - going on and getting off it. Am still suffering the fall out weeks after stopping. Was curious what you meant by lexparo really ramping up the MAV for you. Do you feel that triggered a huge downslide that you didn’t come back from?
H
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Maybe. I was pretty bad before it (major anxiety, couldn’t travel by car even VERY short distances, i.e. a minute, so all I could do was take short walks). The start was a nightmare, probably because SSRIs do that to you in the beginning. Bedbound for a week and a half until I got a script for Xanax XR, 2 mg/day. That helped a lot, but I wasn’t back to pre-lexapro (which of course still was horrible comparedt a healthy person). I took that for 3 weeks (2 weeks at 2 mg, 1 week at 1 mg) and then quit. HORRIBLE few days after quitting, possibly because of xanax withdrawal added in as well. That’s when I started the remeron, which I’m still on.
About a month after starting (and still taking it) I became unable to go outside, period. Then I gradually got worse and worse.
Now, I’m off lexapro (since late 2007; and off SSRIs since feb 2008) but still not off all serotonin-acting meds, so don’t give up just because you read the above. I’m actually on a low dose of TWO - remeron and amitriptyline. I think both are hurting me, but I get crazy withdrawal symptoms, feel like crap ANYWAY, and so I’m pretty much too much of a coward to actually DO something about it right now.
Hi Tranquillity,
Thanks so much for your reply. I’ve been reading what a rough time your having with this, hope you get some relief soon.
If it’s any use, I have had a pretty bad time with most drugs I’ve tried apart from propanolol a beta blocker. I realise these things are random and we’re all different, but it might be worth a shot. I was doing ok on it, not cured by any means but out at work and living a semi-normal life. I took the effexor to try and improve more and it backfired on me.
H
I actually had a positive experience with Lexapro. I do remember both times though that the first few days I was more anxious and felt REALLY nauseous and couldn’t eat anything and could not sleep at all (not great after giving birth and being up with a newborn all night!). After a few weeks the first time and a few days the second the insomnia and nausea went away and each time I titrated up I would notice symptoms going away. I wish all drugs worked equally for everyone, but I guess that’s why they make so many different kinds. Hope you find the right one for yourself soon.